influence.measures {base} | R Documentation

## Regression Deletion Diagnostics

### Description

This suite of functions can be used to compute some of the regression (leave-one-out deletion) diagnostics for linear and generalized linear models discussed in Belsley, Kuh and Welsch (1980), Cook and Weisberg (1982), etc.

### Usage

    influence.measures(model)

    rstandard(model, ...)
    ## S3 method for class 'lm':
    rstandard(model, infl = lm.influence(model, do.coef=FALSE),
              sd = sqrt(deviance(model)/df.residual(model)), ...)
    ## S3 method for class 'glm':
    rstandard(model, infl = lm.influence(model, do.coef=FALSE), ...)

    rstudent(model, ...)
    ## S3 method for class 'lm':
    rstudent(model, infl = lm.influence(model, do.coef=FALSE),
             res = infl$wt.res, ...)
    ## S3 method for class 'glm':
    rstudent(model, infl = influence(model, do.coef=FALSE), ...)

    dffits(model, infl = , res = )

    dfbeta(model, ...)
    ## S3 method for class 'lm':
    dfbeta(model, infl = lm.influence(model, do.coef=TRUE), ...)

    dfbetas(model, ...)
    ## S3 method for class 'lm':
    dfbetas(model, infl = lm.influence(model, do.coef=TRUE), ...)

    covratio(model, infl = lm.influence(model, do.coef=FALSE),
             res = weighted.residuals(model))

    cooks.distance(model, ...)
    ## S3 method for class 'lm':
    cooks.distance(model, infl = lm.influence(model, do.coef=FALSE),
                   res = weighted.residuals(model),
                   sd = sqrt(deviance(model)/df.residual(model)),
                   hat = infl$hat, ...)
    ## S3 method for class 'glm':
    cooks.distance(model, infl = influence(model, do.coef=FALSE),
                   res = infl$pear.res, dispersion = summary(model)$dispersion,
                   hat = infl$hat, ...)

    hatvalues(model, ...)
    ## S3 method for class 'lm':
    hatvalues(model, infl = lm.influence(model, do.coef=FALSE), ...)

    hat(x, intercept = TRUE)

### Arguments

`model` | an R object, typically returned by `lm` or `glm`.
`infl` | influence structure as returned by `lm.influence` or `influence` (the latter only for the `glm` method of `rstudent` and `cooks.distance`).
`res` | (possibly weighted) residuals, with proper default.
`sd` | standard deviation to use, see default.
`dispersion` | dispersion (for `glm` objects) to use, see default.
`hat` | hat values H[i,i], see default.
`x` | the X or design matrix.
`intercept` | should an intercept column be pre-prended to `x`?
`...` | further arguments passed to or from other methods.

### Details

The primary high-level function is `influence.measures` which produces a class `"infl"` object tabular display showing the DFBETAS for each model variable, DFFITS, covariance ratios, Cook's distances and the diagonal elements of the hat matrix. Cases which are influential with respect to any of these measures are marked with an asterisk.

The functions `dfbetas`, `dffits`, `covratio` and `cooks.distance` provide direct access to the corresponding diagnostic quantities. Functions `rstandard` and `rstudent` give the standardized and Studentized residuals respectively. (These re-normalize the residuals to have unit variance, using an overall and leave-one-out measure of the error variance respectively.)

Values for generalized linear models are approximations, as described in Williams (1987) (except that Cook's distances are scaled as F rather than as chi-square values).

The optional `infl`, `res` and `sd` arguments are there to encourage the use of these direct access functions, in situations where, e.g., the underlying basic influence measures (from `lm.influence` or the generic `influence`) are already available.

Note that cases with `weights == 0` are dropped from all these functions, but that if a linear model has been fitted with `na.action = na.exclude`, suitable values are filled in for the cases excluded during fitting.

The function `hat()` exists mainly for S (version 2) compatibility; we recommend using `hatvalues()` instead.

### Note

For `hatvalues`, `dfbeta`, and `dfbetas`, the method for linear models also works for generalized linear models.

### Author(s)

Several R core team members and John Fox, originally in his ‘`car`’ package.

### References

Belsley, D. A., Kuh, E. and Welsch, R. E. (1980) Regression Diagnostics. New York: Wiley.

Cook, R. D. and Weisberg, S. (1982) Residuals and Influence in Regression. London: Chapman and Hall.

Williams, D. A. (1987) Generalized linear model diagnostics using the deviance and single case deletions. Applied Statistics 36, 181–191.

Fox, J. (1997) Applied Regression, Linear Models, and Related Methods. Sage.

Fox, J. (2002) An R and S-Plus Companion to Applied Regression. Sage Publ.; http://www.socsci.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Books/Companion/.

### See Also

`influence` (containing `lm.influence`).

### Examples

    ## Analysis of the life-cycle savings data
    ## given in Belsley, Kuh and Welsch.
    data(LifeCycleSavings)
    lm.SR <- lm(sr ~ pop15 + pop75 + dpi + ddpi, data = LifeCycleSavings)

    inflm.SR <- influence.measures(lm.SR)
    which(apply(inflm.SR$is.inf, 1, any)) # which observations 'are' influential
    summary(inflm.SR) # only these
    inflm.SR          # all
    plot(rstudent(lm.SR) ~ hatvalues(lm.SR)) # recommended by some

    ## The 'infl' argument is not needed, but avoids recomputation:
    rs <- rstandard(lm.SR)
    iflSR <- influence(lm.SR)
    identical(rs, rstandard(lm.SR, infl = iflSR))
    ## to "see" the larger values:
    1000 * round(dfbetas(lm.SR, infl = iflSR), 3)

    ## Huber's data [Atkinson 1985]
    xh <- c(-4:0, 10)
    yh <- c(2.48, .73, -.04, -1.44, -1.32, 0)
    summary(lmH <- lm(yh ~ xh))
    (im <- influence.measures(lmH))
    plot(xh,yh, main = "Huber's data: L.S. line and influential obs.")
    abline(lmH); points(xh[im$is.inf], yh[im$is.inf], pch=20, col=2)

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